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Promising Practices in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Summary of Two Workshops (2011) / Chapter Skim
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3 Surveying Promising Practices
Pages 21-25

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... Jeffrey Froyd (Texas A&M University) began by describing a framework that he developed to categorize promising undergraduate teaching practices in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
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... Implementation standards include the relevance of the promising practice to the course, resource constraints, faculty comfort level, and the theoretical foun dation for the promising practice. Student performance standards relate to the available evidence on the effectiveness of the promising practice, which may include comparison studies or implementation studies.
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... focused on lessons from precollege science education. He described a large-scale survey that he and his colleagues conducted of students in introductory biology, chemistry, and physics courses at 57 randomly chosen postsecondary institutions.
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... Sadler also reported that the use of technology in high school science classes did not predict success in college science; however, experience in solving quantitative problems, analyzing data, and making graphs in high school did seem to predict success in college science courses. SMALL-GROUP DISCUSSIONS AND FINAL THOUGHTS In small groups, participants identified what they considered to be the most important promising practices in undergraduate STEM education.
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... observed that the participants discussed a continuum of promising practices ranging from individual classroom activities to courses to curricula to departments to institutional transformation. Discussing the day's themes, Mogk described a desire to identify promising practices that promote mastery of content and skills while addressing barriers to learning, and he recalled discussions about the difficulty of articulating and assessing some of those skills.
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